the current predicament

tragedy! it looks like the kettle has died. 

horsemouth dreamed of going to a festival up in the mountains. (in theory he's meeting friends tonight) and at the weekend he goes to a housing conference. 

last night he watched an interview with gary stevenson an ex-trader (with various bits of paper from LSE and oxford) which made a lot of sense of the current predicament. 'the plan is to make you  permanently poorer'  remarks gary (and he's not wrong). 

horsemouth's recent efforts in housing have probably just been fucked by recent and incoming interest rate rises (which were probably coming anyway but have been intensified by government ineptitude). gee thanks government. horsemouth is interested i the way that current government policy fucks the middle classes. he  is fortunate (himself) in that he collectively owns property (such is the nature of a co-op) or rather that he has low rent housing. the strategy of the rich is to buy assets (with their free money from the government) and to live off those by charging the poor rent to use them - this way the rich stay rich the poor stay poor. (so that's all right then). 

horsemouth realises he is a very vulgar marxist for liking this. 

the interviewer and gary spend a lot of time fiddling with their noses (don't do this dudes it makes you look like you are on drugs).

TG was just on the phone (they have their walk booked).